subdivide
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Before construction begins, everyone’s expectations should be clearly documented, especially if it does turn out — given what you say in your letter — that you are not allowed to subdivide this land.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
And so even in the legislature, we subdivide power again between Senate and house.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
Or, he could apply to subdivide the lots into multiple smaller ownerships.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2025
Unlike state criminal codes, the federal criminal code does not “grade” or subdivide most of its white-collar offenses.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2023
He understood a lot about how to speculate for land, graze it, subdivide it, make it pay dividends.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
It starts broad with three domains: Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya, then subdivides into kingdoms, continuing to narrow itself down all the way to species.
From Salon ● Dec. 10, 2022
Yet another, June Living, subdivides homes and individual apartments into single-room rentals.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 13, 2018
Anchored by an instantly likable teen, "Becoming Us" uses a screen that often subdivides into video blogs, FaceTime chats and texts to make its preference for selfie over soapbox instantly clear.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2015
During the fourth and fifth weeks, the anterior neural tube dilates and subdivides to form vesicles that will become the brain structures.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The polonaise subdivides its quarters into eighths, and the second eighth usually into two sixteenths; it differs, therefore, from the other three dances by its rhythm.
From Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered by Josef Hofmann
Rather than merely gathering a grab bag of cinematic artifacts and spilling them forth, they have subdivided their hoard of nearly 400 items within six genre-themed galleries: Gothic, Psychological, Science, Slasher, Religion and Ghosts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
If the property cannot be subdivided, his house would increase the value of your overall property, but ownership would still remain with the family trust.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
The charity knows of around 300 households threatened with forcible eviction from subdivided flats, with more expected to follow, according to Sze -- far more than the 35 notices the government said it had received.
From Barron's ● May 28, 2026
It also features five precision-calibrated plates and degree divisions "so fine they are subdivided down to a third of a degree".
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026
Even these may need to be subdivided further into the various phases of an artist’s development.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
Find out why subdividing the land is not allowed.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
About 340 million years ago, leaves sported veins that branched like a tree, with a main “trunk” subdividing into multiple branches.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 30, 2024
Peter Gleick, author of more than a dozen books on water, orchestrates a voyage through the history of this precious and finite commodity, subdividing a rich timeline into three eras.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 20, 2023
“We went in, and it was like on each floor, every room had cloth partitions, like blankets held from the ceiling, subdividing it into multiple residents’ cubes.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2022
The delicate, slender shafts, subdividing unequally the ambulatory, have really no carrying office, but were probably introduced to lessen the difficulty of vaulting the irregular compartments of such unequal sides.
From Cathedrals of Spain by John A.
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